present tense
present tense noun: a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.
Noun
present tense (plural present tenses)
- A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.
- Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order...1998 March 30, Lance Morrow, “The Trouble With The Present Tense”, in Time
- Synonyms:
- present
present tense meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
present tense in Hindi
- form of language
- वर्तमान vartamān, वर्तमान काल vartamān kāl
present tense in Tamil
- form of language
- நிகழ்காலம் nikaḻkālam
present tense in Urdu
- form of language
- حال hāl, زَمانَۂ حال zamāna-yi hāl
present tense in Bengali
- form of language
- বর্তমান bortoman, বর্তমান কাল bortoman kal
More languagesFewer languages
- present tense in Telugu
- వర్తమానకాలము vartamānakālamu
- present tense in Kannada
- ಈಪೊತ್ತು
- present tense in Gujarati
- વર્તમાન vartamān
- present tense in Tagalog
- pangkasalukuyan, nagaganap
- present tense in Arabic
- مُضَارِع muḍāriʕ, فِعْل مُضَارِع fiʕl muḍāriʕ, الْفِعْل الْمُضَارِع al-fiʕl al-muḍāriʕ
- present tense in Malay
- kala kini
- present tense in Indonesian
- kala kini
- present tense in Thai
- ปัจจุบัน bpàt-jù-ban
- present tense in Vietnamese
- thì hiện tại
- present tense in Myanmar
- ပစ္စုပ္ပန် paccuppan
Synonyms of present tense
Forms of present tense
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Words formed from present tense
- dramatic present tense
- historical present tense
- historic present tense
- narrative present tense
- present historic tense
Questions about present tense
- What does present tense mean?
- Present tense means a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.
- What is present tense in Hindi?
- Present tense in Hindi is वर्तमान (vartamān), वर्तमान काल (vartamān kāl). See Present tense meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is present tense?
- Present tense is a noun.
- What is the plural of present tense?
- The plural of present tense is present tenses.
Words near present tense in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: present tense (page history and authors); present tense (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વર્તમાન (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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